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Trooper JOSEPH WILLIAM WARD

Service Number: 106
Regiment & Unit/Ship

6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)

Date of Death

Died 18 August 1915

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot I. Row A. Grave 16.

France

Kandy War Cemetery - poppy wreath and candles at grave of Signalman Sinclair Campbell, Royal Corps of Signals, December 2019

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Headstone in Kandy War Cemetery of Steward Gamage Charles, G/LCX.1638, H.M.S. Hathi, Royal Navy, who died on 24 August 1945, aged 20.

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Tim Halstead DPO visit 4 February 2025, during holiday.

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Headstone in Kandy War Cemetery of Private William Davidson, 7371687, 215 Field Amb., Royal Army Medical Corps, who died on 3 August 1942, aged 23.

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Headstone in Kandy War Cemetery of Flying Officer Douglas Gordon Davie, 130977, 160 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who died on 7 December 1943, aged 27.

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Headstone in Kandy war Cemetery of Warrant Officer Class II George Arthur Fletcher, 4532388, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), who died on 22 May 1944, aged 36.

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Headstone in Kandy War Cemetery of Gunner John Flood, 1103422, 51 (The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry) Field Regt., Royal Artillery, who died on 17 May 1942, aged 28.

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Headstone in Kandy War Cemetery of Lieutenant George Walter Summers Hope, H.M.S. Hathi, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who died on 10 July 1944, aged 31.

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Headstone in Kandy War Cemetery of Lieutenant Nigel Colquhoun Irvine, H.M.S. Nigeria., Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who died on 26 May 1944, aged 29 years old.

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Tim Halstead DPO visit 4 February 2025, during holiday.

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Headstone in Kandy War Cemetery of Aircraftman 2nd Class David Brynmor Jones, 1278021, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who died on 10 November 1945, aged 38.

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Mary Ward, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. Served in Egypt and India.
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Buried or commemorated at

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 249
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